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Post by Jep Gambardella on Oct 24, 2023 17:12:05 GMT
Not that I am a big connoisseur or anything.
I always thought that red grapes made red wine, white (well, green) grapes made white wine, and pink grapes made rosé wine. I learned recently that that is not true. Other people I spoke to didn’t know it either.
Who knows why red wine has its dark colour, white wine has its light colour, and rosé wine has its pinkish colour?
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Post by Catman on Oct 24, 2023 17:25:47 GMT
The length of time the grape skins are left in contact with the juice?
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Oct 24, 2023 20:33:24 GMT
The length of time the grape skins are left in contact with the juice? That's right. For red wine, the skin of the (dark) grapes are left in after the grapes are crushed, and filtered out later. For rosé wine, the skin stays in for a shorter period. For white wine, the grapes can be dark or green, it doesn't matter - the liquid is filtered right away, so it doesn't acquire the colour of the skins. Then there is orange wine, which is made from pressing white grapes and leaving the skin in with the liquid. This is a process that was never practiced in the big wine-producing nations of Western Europe but was popular in Eastern Europe, and is now spreading worldwide.
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